General Relativity

The official physical interpretation of what prevents the Moon from flying out of the Solar System: warped spacetime. The Moon allegedly rolls around a depression caused by the Earth in a mathematical concept. The theorist urges you not to take the ‘analogy’ literally.

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Q: What sense does it make to say that gravity is the bending of time (in the context of a physical interpretation for gravity)?

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